All quiet on the Riviera - by Jamie Mackay theweekinitaly.substack.com/p/all-quiet-...

things I enjoyed reading this weekend

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Re-reading this beautiful writing by Christoph-Tsang Grosse, via @aliciadkennedy.bsky.social Dispatch series, and I've underlined practically every second sentence.

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one thing that I look forward to every day is the awe inspired by the swallows swooping and gliding and chitterchattering in the clear blue skies we've been having

I always love reading about translation, and how translators approach a text. Here, @jencalleja.bsky.social explains so well why "remaining faithful" to a text -- nebulous a concept as that is -- doesn't and can't mean pressure to do some sort of word for word copy

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re-listening to Deborah Levy's Hot Milk, read by Romola Garai

orange-tip butterflies fluttering along the perimeter of the garden, enjoying the sun after yesterday's downpours. Sometimes when two seem to bump into each other, it's like they do an aerial dance together before going on their way.

a thread of favourites that I like to re-read

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Last week, I saw my first swallow of the season, flying high above the car as I drove along; today I saw my first one at home -- it was soaring along the length of the neighbour's field. Time for some Lucio Dalla

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I saw a pair of bullfinches hidden in the long grass in the garden picking at dandelion heads. They they flew up into the pear tree and faced each other for ages, wiggling around to dry off from the rain, and sometimes they were touching beaks

a thread of recent reading

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